Reply #38: I respect people who hold religious views. [View All]

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

That is their right and they are welcome to worship in the manner that pleases them and fits them. That said, I have no truck with those who use their religion as a cloak for their hatreds, thus perverting the message they say they ascribe to. Especially egregious is the cherry-picking of scripture between the old and new testaments, a synthesis that creates a comfort zone for prejudices. After all, didn't somebody one say that he brough a new covenant? I seem to remember that. It wasn't a covenant of hate, as I was taught it.